"Montalbano and Valente seemed not to have heard him, looking as if their minds were elsewhere. But in fact they were paying very close attention, like cats that, keeping their eyes closed as if asleep, are actually counting the stars."

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Source : Andrea Camilleri (2010). “The Snack Thief”, p.125, Pan Macmillan

Andrea Camilleri

#Stars Quotes #Cat Quotes #Eye Quotes

“We only get better by pushing ourselves.”
“The master says itâ€™s a glorious thing to die for the Faith and Dad says itâ€™s a glorious thing to die for Ireland and I wonder if thereâ€™s anyone in the world who would like us to live.”
“Monday Night Football. That was everything to me because you get a chance to show everybody what you're capable of. It's only two teams on that Monday night.”
“I never got the opportunity to be romantic or feel romantic with anyone.”
“Everyone has days where they don't get their way, where you have to go to bed early or you have too much homework to do or you can't eat the candy that you want or you miss your favorite TV show and, in those moments, you just want to tear the whole world down.”

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“I think that it's a great idea to have honest conversations about children before getting married. I also think it's impossible to promise someone, "What I want right now will never change, and as long as I promise you I do - or don't - want a child - or a specific number of children - before we get married, we will never have to experience fear, anxiety, uncertainty, or the pain of not getting what we want, when we want it.”
“I grew up believing my generation would be better. We would be kinder, we would be more level-headed. We would be more loving. And so many people are missing.”
“A book is one of the most patient of all man's inventions. Centuries mean nothing to a well-made book. It awaits its destined reader, come when he may, with eager hand and seeing eye. Then occurs one of the great examples of union, that of a man with a book, pleasurable, sometimes fruitful, potentially world-changing, simple; and in a library...witho ut cost to the reader.”

Source : Lawrence Clark Powell (1985). “Books are basic: the essential Lawrence Clark Powell”, Univ of Arizona Pr

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